After the Accessories and Styling/Photography weeks, I decided to use my ideas and incorporate them into my final designs.
I designed 6 details in a structured kimono style coat, which is my garment of choice. I decided on outerwear as a final garment as we are designing for Autumn Winter and the season is all about layering. Following on from earlier designs the structural necklines and silhouettes were my greatest inspirations. After my neck piece, I wanted to focus on the neck of the outer wear, so therefore using the structure of a kimono with it's high neck seemed appropriate.
Following this thought process I had to work out how to physically create a 'neck' with structure, so I moved from paper to mannequin. To start off, I was trying to work out how to create a simple neck 'collar.' I used calico, and used a simple dart pattern that I made up.
From this initial design, I used pattern paper, brown paper and calico to add various neck structures as experiments.
I actually found this work really hard, and got really worked up and upset with it, because I had so little experience I found it really frustrating not being able to do what I wanted with the material. However, after a quite 1-to-1 with one of my tutors Sarah, I calmed down and pulled myself together. Sarah seemed to think I had quite a natural flare with the mannequin work, which was encouraging and I felt more confident with continuing working on my designs.
Although the mannequin work was successful, transferring these designs to a pattern would mean I would have to design a pattern that 'grew' at the neck, something extremely advanced. I spent the rest of the day sewing and experimenting onto my mannequin at home, and manipulating the paper in different ways, this was very useful to the development of my designs to final product.
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